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- Commentary
- Slate
- April 10, 2017
In March 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, then–Maj. Gen. David Petraeus turned to embedded reporter Linda Robinson and famously asked: “Tell me how this ends.”That question...
By Phillip Carter
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- Commentary
- Syria Comment
- April 10, 2017
On Thursday, the Trump administration decided to fire 59 cruisemissilesfrom U.S. naval vessels in the Mediterranean at the Al-Shayrat airbase, an important Syrian military a...
By Nicholas Heras
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Commentary
- The Washington Post
- April 7, 2017
In The Washington Post,CNASMiddle East Security Program experts Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss President DonaldTrump'sdecision tolaunch missile strikesagains...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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- Commentary
- The Diplomat
- April 7, 2017
Quite apart from the Trump-Xi summit, China and the United States are due for a showdown in the South China Sea. Beijing confronted the last two administrations with dangerous...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Anthony Cho
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- Commentary
- Observer
- April 7, 2017
With Xi Jinping journeying to President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, it is worthwhile to question whether the world is witnessing the slow unfolding of o...
By Jerry Hendrix
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- Commentary
- Foreign Policy
- April 6, 2017
The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it wouldremoveWhite House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council (NSC). National security wonk...
By Julianne Smith & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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- Commentary
- Slate
- April 6, 2017
Even without the Russian intrigues of the nascent Trump administration, now would be a time for Kremlinology. Just as intelligence officers used to scrutinize every possible c...
By Phillip Carter
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- Commentary
- The National Interest
- April 6, 2017
The first summit meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is the beginning of a process, punctuated by serious issues, separated by distinctly different negotiat...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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- Commentary
- Foreign Policy
- April 5, 2017
Thecollapseof the Republican healthcare bill is good news not only for President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement, but also for one of his central foreign polic...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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- Commentary
- The National Interest
- April 4, 2017
A bad idea, left unchallenged, can become a “good” idea in the minds of the powerful. It can then be acted upon, often to terrible results. The Bay of Pigs fiasco, for instanc...
By Neal Urwitz
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- Commentary
- War on the Rocks
- April 4, 2017
When then President-elect Donald Trump announced that he had chosen Gen. Jim Mattis to lead the Pentagon, there was a collective sigh of relief across the national security es...
By Shawn Brimley
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- Commentary
- Politico
- April 4, 2017
One of Donald Trump’s winning themes on the campaign trail was the notion that nobody was better suited to getting a better deal from China than the man who literally wrote a ...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper & Charles Edel
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- Commentary
- The American Interest
- April 4, 2017
A shoe has dropped in Europe. A small shoe, but one with a loud bang on a marble floor. The government of pro-Russian populist Viktor Orban in Hungary has introduced legislati...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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- Commentary
- The American Interest
- April 3, 2017
In anew Islamic State videothat has undoubtedly caught Beijing’s eye, Uighur militants threaten to “shed blood like rivers” in China, pledge to avenge the oppressed, and bur...
By Richard Fontaine & Michael Singh
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- Commentary
- Foreign Policy
- March 31, 2017
Bowing tooutside pressure, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to attend his first meeting with NATO’s foreign ministers on Friday. But that was not his initial plan. Sch...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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- Commentary
- Slate
- March 31, 2017
News leaked on Thursday evening that retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was shopping his testimony regarding the Trump administration’s Russia ties to anyone who might listen. Spe...
By Phillip Carter
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- Commentary
- Foreign Policy
- March 30, 2017
With the near-doubling of U.S. forces in northern Syria, and perhaps more on the way, President Donald Trump is moving aggressively on hispledgeto “demolish and destroy” wha...
By Colin H. Kahl, Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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- Commentary
- Military.com
- March 30, 2017
Following almost every crisis and scandal, the person, company or government entity responsible is tempted chalk it up as "just a PR problem.""If only they knew the real us,"...
By Amy Schafer & Neal Urwitz
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Commentary
- The Wall Street Journal
- March 27, 2017
A Japanese vice minister has become the highest-ranking Japanese official to visit Taiwan since Tokyo severed ties with the island in 1972.Jiro Akama,deputy minister of inte...
By Richard Fontaine
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- Commentary
- Independent Journal Review
- March 27, 2017
Afghanistan is at an inflection point. Again.For anyone keeping track, this has become an annual ritual as our efforts over the last decade have been characterized by the sus...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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